Site's languages

• Deutsch
• français

English

• News about Peace PRISM
• Peace PRISM released under Open Source License
• Peace PRISM: A framework for sharing and displaying spatio-temporal indicators

• Photographs
  • Photographs from the conference
  • Photographs from the hike
• Practical information
  • Guidelines for preparing paper
• Scientific program
  • Opening session (Thursday 21 June)
    • Correlates of War Project
    • Introductions of the Participants
    • Welcome address
    • Why use, share and improve datasets?
    • Overview of several major datasets related to armed conflicts
    • Short presentation of the ACLED database
    • Conflict Data and the Study of Different Aspects of War
  • Datasets used by NGOs - Awareness raising and advocacy (Friday 22 June, 9:15)
    • Design and use of databases related to human rights
    • Databases on defense for influencing state policies
  • Scientific definitions vs. political uses
    • Indicators for prospective violent escalation
    • Data comparability, scientific requirements and political utility
  • Indicators for early-warning and prevention
    • Databases on Terrorism
    • Indicator Development for Early Warning Reports
  • Synthetic indicators
    • Indexes for measures of conflict and cooperation
    • Visualization of Conflict Networks
    • GRIP’s indicator of contribution to peace (ICPM)
    • Formulas for criteria related to German arms export controls
  • Tools and practices for managing, displaying and disseminating datasets (Saturday 23 June)
    • Debate on Coding Guidelines
    • Conflict and Environment: data, simulation and visualisation
    • Data management for research purposes
    • BICC’s database/interactive map on arms exports
    • Short presentations of several online database systems
    • Merged data, synthetic indicators and diffusion
    • Peace PRISM: A future framework for sharing and displaying spatio-temporal indicators
  • Merging datasets
    • Merged data at UNEP
    • Merging and Meshing Data
  • Concluding session
    • Conclusion and Future Work
    • Final Debate: Where do we go from here?
    • Results from the Evaluation Questionnaire
• Presentation
  • Audio recordings
  • NATO ARW on databases for risk prevention
  • Sponsors
  • Summary of workshop findings